Two young researchers have launched a free manuscript-editing service to help scientists from developing countries get papers published in English-language journals. Justin Chakma, a research analyst at the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health in Toronto, Canada, and Alexander Patananan, a biochemistry doctoral student at the University of California, Los Angeles, set up SciEdit earlier this year as a spin-off of the Journal of Young Investigators, an international student-run, peer-reviewed journal. In choosing which papers to improve, it assesses the merit of the science, not just the use of English. To date, SciEdit has accepted 10 manuscripts from India, South Africa, Pakistan, China and Nepal.
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